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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dead until a few weeks ago--may be in favor for a year or longer. The biggest cyclical names, like Caterpillar, International Paper and DuPont, have already had huge moves but probably still have room to run. Consider also an investment in a Wilshire 5000 or Russell 2000 stock-index fund. Both have a heavy slug of small- and middle-size basic-industry companies, which tend to rally as a group on the heels of the bigger names...
...YORK: It probably won't be a Black Monday, but after Wall Street's market movers get through stewing in their juices this weekend, expect something like charcoal gray. The Consumer Price Index was way up Friday -- the 0.7 percent hike was the biggest since the Gulf War -- and by close of day the Dow had shed 194 points. Now investors have two days to read the papers, look ahead to the Fed's interest-rate confab Tuesday and wonder: Is the best news on inflation behind us? And more important, does Alan Greenspan think...
Robert Rubin's been a lame duck for only one day -- could the economy be overheating already? Well, Thursday's round of economic reports from Washington certainly raised a few red flags. The Labor Department's Producer Price Index (PPI) rose 0.5 percent in April, up from March's rise of just 0.2 percent. And though retail sales for April rose only 0.1 percent, inflation hawks would have much preferred a drop -- considering that April was the ninth straight month that America's drunken-sailor consumers spent more than the month before. TIME senior economics reporter Bernard Baumohl says...
...This is just a temporary spike," he says. "The jump in the PPI -- like the jump in the Consumer Price Index that's expected tomorrow -- is mostly because the oil-production cuts that OPEC instituted in March have only now kicked in. Things should level off again in May." But -- and there's always one where economic forecasting is concerned -- if that slowdown doesn't happen, the Asian bullet that Rubin/Greenspan/Summers dodged last winter may well get them on the ricochet. "If the recovery in the crisis economies continues," says Baumohl, "the U.S. will start to see real inflationary pressure...
...League diamonds last week, it was as if we'd already forgotten that the Internet brings us vital medical information, cross-cultural dialogue, vast stores of learning and beauty and virtue. Yet what comfort is that to a parent who came across a website last week in which the index included the following entries: "Counterfeit Money," "Hot-Wiring Cars," "Breaking into Houses," "Thermite Bombs," "Tennis Ball Bomb"? Such is the power of Web technology that the simple act of listing the phrases here will make it possible for anyone to type these words into a search engine and immediately locate...